J.S. Breukelaar

I am an author of literary speculative fiction, currently based in Sydney Australia where I teach literature and writing at Sydney University and Western Sydney University. My second novel, Aletheia, was a 2018 Aurealis Award finalist and my first novel, American Monster was shortlisted for the 2015 Wonderland Award. My new collection of short stories, Collision, is introduced by Angela Slatter and forthcoming in February 2019, from Meerkat Press and has earned advance praise from John Langan, Kathe Koja, Stephen Graham Jones, and others and has been reviewed at the New York Journal of Books. You can find my short fiction, essays and poetry in Black Static, Juked, Unnerving, Lightspeed, Gamut, The Nervous Breakdown, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, LitReactor, and in anthologies like Welcome to Dystopia, and Women Writing the Weird. Born in California, raised in New York, educated in New Zealand and Australia, I also regularly teach and occasionally columnate at LitReactor.com, and appear at conventions around the world where I read, panellate and do everything except sleep. In 2018 I was a grateful recipient of the Create NSW Starving Artist Award AKA the Artist Quick Response Support Grant.